Robert Cava

Robert Joseph Cava (born 1951)[1] is a solid-state chemist at Princeton University where he holds the title Russell Wellman Moore Professor of Chemistry.[4] Previously, Professor Cava worked as a staff scientist at Bell labs from 1979–1996, where earned the title of Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff. As of 2016 his research investigates topological insulators, semimetals, superconductors, frustrated magnets and thermoelectrics.[2][5][6]

Robert Cava

ForMemRS
Robert Cava at the Royal Society admissions day in London in 2016
Born1951 (age 69–70)[1]
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsSolid-state chemistry[2]
Institutions
ThesisA study of the mobile ions in several binary fast ion conductors (1978)
Doctoral advisorBernhardt J. Wuensch[3]
Notable studentsHemamala Karunadasa
Websitechemists.princeton.edu/cava

Education

Cava was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he was awarded Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Materials Science and Engineering in 1974 followed by a PhD in ceramics in 1978.[5] His PhD was supervised by Bernhardt J. Wuensch[3] and investigated the electrical mobility of ions in fast ion conductors.[7][8][9]

Career and research

In his career, he has published over 500 peer-reviewed papers, 36 of them in Nature and 8 of them in Science. These papers have been cited over 30,000 times, including his seminal work on Ba2YCu3O9−δ (YBCO), which has been cited almost 1500 times.[10] He holds 15 patents.

Professor Robert J. Cava during the ceremony of receiving the Doctor Honoris Causa degree from the Gdańsk University of Technology

Honors and awards

In recognition of his contributions, he was elected in 1988 a fellow of the American Institute of Physics[11] and a Fellow of the American Physical Society.[12] He was elected in 2001 a member of the National Academy of Sciences[13] who specifically acknowledged his mastery of the ternary and quaternary oxides that produced materials possessing high-temperature superconductivity.

In 1996 Cava received the Bernd T. Matthias Prize for new superconducting materials. He received in 2011 the Humboldt Prize and in 2012 the Linus Pauling Award. In 2014 he received a Doctor Honoris Causa degree from the Gdańsk University of Technology. Cava also won the 2021 David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics.[14] In addition to research, Cava's ability to connect with students while teaching has earned him several teaching awards, including the Fall 2002 Excellence in Teaching Award from Princeton University.[5]

Professor Robert J. Cava and rector of the Gdańsk University of Technology, Professor Henryk Krawczyk, during the ceremony of receiving the Doctor Honoris Causa degree

He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2016.[15]

Personal life

His biography at the Gdańsk University of Technology describes him as a

New Yorker, dedicated supporter of the New York Yankees, passionate astronomer and amateur brewer.[1]

References
  1. "Robert J. Cava (born 1951)" (PDF). Gdansk: pg.edu.pl. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-05-31.
  2. "Cava Laboratory: Solid State Chemistry Research Group". Princeton, New Jersey: princeton.edu. Archived from the original on 2016-05-01.
  3. "Cava Lab: Professor Robert J. Cava". princeton.edu. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
  4. CV in Princeton
  5. "Robert J. Cava CV: Russell Wellman Moore Professor of Chemistry" (PDF). Princeton, New Jersey: princeton.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-05-31.
  6. Robert Cava's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  7. Cava, Robert Joseph (1978). A study of the mobile ions in several binary fast ion conductors (PhD thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. OCLC 5881992. ProQuest 302912364.
  8. Cava, R.J.; Reidinger, F.; Wuensch, B.J. (1977). "Single-crystal neutron-diffraction study of AgI between 23° and 300°C". Solid State Communications. 24 (6): 411–416. Bibcode:1977SSCom..24..411C. doi:10.1016/0038-1098(77)91306-0.
  9. "Bernhardt J. Wuensch: Chemistry Tree". academictree.org. Archived from the original on 2016-05-31.
  10. Cava, Robert; et al. (20 April 1987). "Bulk superconductivity at 91 K in single-phase oxygen-deficient perovskite Ba2YCu3O9-δ". Phys. Rev. Lett. 58 (16): 1676–1679. Bibcode:1987PhRvL..58.1676C. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.58.1676. PMID 10034505.
  11. "Robert Cava". Array of Contemporary American Physicists. American Institute of Physics. Retrieved 16 September 2012.
  12. "APS Fellow Archive". APS. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
  13. "Cava, Robert J." Member Directory. National Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 2016-03-21. Retrieved 16 September 2012.
  14. https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?last_nm=Cava&first_nm=Robert&year=2021
  15. "Professor Robert Cava ForMemRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2016-04-29. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on September 25, 2015. Retrieved 2016-03-09.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
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